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[[ignore-malformed]]
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=== `ignore_malformed`
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Sometimes you don't have much control over the data that you receive. One
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user may send a `login` field that is a <<date,`date`>>, and another sends a
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`login` field that is an email address.
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Trying to index the wrong datatype into a field throws an exception by
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default, and rejects the whole document. The `ignore_malformed` parameter, if
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set to `true`, allows the exception to be ignored. The malformed field is not
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indexed, but other fields in the document are processed normally.
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For example:
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[source,js]
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--------------------------------------------------
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PUT my_index
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{
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"mappings": {
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"my_type": {
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"properties": {
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"number_one": {
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"type": "integer",
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"ignore_malformed": true
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},
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"number_two": {
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"type": "integer"
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}
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}
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}
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}
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}
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PUT my_index/my_type/1
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{
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"text": "Some text value",
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"number_one": "foo" <1>
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}
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PUT my_index/my_type/2
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{
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"text": "Some text value",
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"number_two": "foo" <2>
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}
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--------------------------------------------------
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// AUTOSENSE
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// TEST[catch:request]
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<1> This document will have the `text` field indexed, but not the `number_one` field.
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<2> This document will be rejected because `number_two` does not allow malformed values.
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TIP: The `ignore_malformed` setting is allowed to have different settings for
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fields of the same name in the same index. Its value can be updated on
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existing fields using the <<indices-put-mapping,PUT mapping API>>.
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[[ignore-malformed-setting]]
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==== Index-level default
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The `index.mapping.ignore_malformed` setting can be set on the index level to
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allow to ignore malformed content globally across all mapping types.
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[source,js]
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--------------------------------------------------
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PUT my_index
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{
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"settings": {
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"index.mapping.ignore_malformed": true <1>
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},
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"mappings": {
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"my_type": {
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"properties": {
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"number_one": { <1>
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"type": "byte"
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},
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"number_two": {
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"type": "integer",
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"ignore_malformed": false <2>
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}
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}
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}
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}
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}
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--------------------------------------------------
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// AUTOSENSE
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<1> The `number_one` field inherits the index-level setting.
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<2> The `number_two` field overrides the index-level setting to turn off `ignore_malformed`.
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